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From The House
Micro Lesson: Manifesting Magic with the Art of Letterwriting by Liza Birnbaum
Posted Tue, 2/12/2019
by Guest ContributorNoy Holland, one of my most beloved former teachers, talks sometimes about how good writing contains within it the suggestion—the presence, even—of a listener. I like this term “listener”…
Micro Lesson: How To Write What Scares You by Sara Brickman
Posted Thu, 2/7/2019
by Guest ContributorSeveral years ago, I was handed a prompt by one of my writing teachers. The assignment was to write a cento, a form of found poetry where one builds lines…